Random pick. It just looked like one of those noir movies that I ended up watching a lot of when I was bored a while back.
Larry has impulse control issues and makes bad decisions. A lot of bad decisions. He also has not one, but three women who want to be with him. Two of them end up dead, and he's on trial for murder. It's probably the only crime he hasn't committed, but he's going to tell us the whole sordid tale.
Okay, I thought everyone in this movie was terrible. I'm blaming both Larry and Greta for the death of the horse. They suck. Janice sucks, because she's stupid and never learned anything. Twice. Verna is a terrible person, but she's one of the dead women, so it doesn't really matter.
But the last minute saved it for me. The movie had lost me at that point. I was doing other stuff, and it had been downgraded to background noise, but one moment changed it all. The verdict was in. I was laughing so hard. Was I supposed to be laughing? Of course not. But what happened was so unexpected and so beautiful that I was almost crying. My dog came into the room to see if I was okay.
I'm not calling this a good movie, but if you can slog your way through the excuses and bad decisions Larry makes for an hour and a half, I think the last minute makes up for it! If not, I was probably just delirious or having one of the moments where you find something really funny and everyone else thinks you're insane...
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